[dd36]

I’m sure businesses that rely on dumping arsenic into the local lake don’t like having their livelihood threatened either. Property rights matter. Right now the market is broken.

[rantwasp]

consuming energy (and paying for it) is not even the same species with dumping toxic chemicals

[dd36]

Burning coal literally dumps arsenic into the environment.

And to do so for speculative fun is ridiculous.

[rantwasp]

i have some bad news for you when it comes to how lot of electricity is generated.

Also, how do you decide which computing is good and which computing is bad?

[dd36]

You do, do you? I suppose it is of the variety where miners magically only use clean energy?

Kill the value of POW as a store of money and see how much of that computing still happens. Then you’ll know how useful it is.

[rantwasp]

nah. the bad news is that a lot of energy is generated with coal. so you get the arsenic and other crap with our without bitcoin.

now, the question is: who decides what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable for energy use?

[dd36]

The government defines efficiency standards. I’d bet money some are coming for crypto soon.